CVE-2024-56641net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.53%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 55% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning We encountered a warning that close_work was canceled before initialization. WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 111103 at kernel/workqueue.c:3047 __flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0 Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc] RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0 Call Trace: ? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190 ? work_busy+0x80/0x80 __cancel_work_timer+0xe3/0x160 smc_close_cancel_work+0x1a/0x70 [smc] smc_close_active_abort+0x207/0x360 [smc] __smc_lgr_terminate.part.38+0xc8/0x180 [smc] process_one_work+0x19e/0x340 worker_thread+0x30/0x370 ? process_one_work+0x340/0x340 kthread+0x117/0x130 ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 This is because when smc_close_cancel_work is triggered, e.g. the RDMA driver is rmmod and the LGR is terminated, the conn->close_work is flushed before initialization, resulting in WARN_ON(!work->func). __smc_lgr_terminate | smc_connect_{rdma|ism} ------------------------------------------------------------- | smc_conn_create | \- smc_lgr_register_conn for conn in lgr->conns_all | \- smc_conn_kill | \- smc_close_active_abort | \- smc_close_cancel_work | \- cancel_work_sync | \- __flush_work | (close_work) | | smc_close_init | \- INIT_WORK(&close_work) So fix this by initializing close_work before establishing the connection.
Timeline
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By Linux
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected 46c28dbd4c23c3f7fa37f5ea48772af79c9cc40e – < d3909a85414041c2a4d147ae5589767d58ee794b
- affected 46c28dbd4c23c3f7fa37f5ea48772af79c9cc40e – < f0c37002210aaede10dae849d1a78efc2243add2
- affected 46c28dbd4c23c3f7fa37f5ea48772af79c9cc40e – < 6638e52dcfafaf1b9cbc34544f0c832db0069ea1
- affected 46c28dbd4c23c3f7fa37f5ea48772af79c9cc40e – < 0541db8ee32c09463a72d0987382b3a3336b0043
- affected 4.12
- unaffected < 4.12
- unaffected 6.1.191 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.66 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.5 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.13 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3909a85414041c2a4d147ae5589767d58ee794b (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0c37002210aaede10dae849d1a78efc2243add2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6638e52dcfafaf1b9cbc34544f0c832db0069ea1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0541db8ee32c09463a72d0987382b3a3336b0043 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-53289 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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